Sad to say, with few exceptions, the circling vultures are left-leaning women.

[As commissioner, Yecke was a big supporter of the No Child Left Behind law, which requires schools to test students every year and slaps penalties on schools where students don't meet test score goals.] Right now, I don't see any resistance [to No Child Left Behind], ... I see acceptance. Implementation is taking place. Perhaps [educators] had once seen it as threatening, but once everything was in place, they found they could rise to the challenge.

It seems to me the vultures have stopped circling.

the most disturbing part of what has occurred is the vultures are circling.

God created heavens and the earth ... but my personal belief has no bearing on what should be taught in the schools.

We would prefer that students in the earliest grades have the benefits of a smaller class taught by a qualified teacher, and we are striving to make this happen.